Tony Gallagher's Page
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- What I do:
- Drama Practitioner. BA (Hons) Drama, Theatre and Media. PGCE. Actor, director, scriptwriter and storyteller. Former director to Caerphilly County Youth Theatre.
- A little more about me:
- Actor, director and writer. Directed County Youth Theatre for four years culminating in directing 'Bassett' by James Graham as part of National Theatre Connections Festival in 2011.
- Location:
- Newbridge, Caerphilly
- Projects I’m working on:
- Acting in film project 'Valley of the Demon', directed by Rhodri Jones with completion in 2013. Writing play.
Tony Gallagher's Blog
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What a brilliant production! Congratulations to NTW and Patrick Jones for such an entertaining play. Patrick has tapped into so many issues arising out of the subject matter of Dementia. He definitely got the inner voice of all those affected. Though Welsh based this play has definitely got a universal appeal. While the play is truly entertaining I feel Augusto Boal would have been proud of Patrick subtly raising potential political issues i.e. the empathy / no empathy and cutbacks to…
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Hey Tony, just a quick message to say huge congratulations to you and all members of Caerphilly Youth Theatre for staging a fantastic performance of Basset. I thought the piece was really compelling and thought provoking. I was totally blown away by it - Well done to all involved!
See you soon
Beth
Oooh by the way, do you know much about the adult drama group at BMI? Im thinking of giving it a whirl?
Paul